Definitions for sea-otter

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Sea-Otter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in sea-otter (-aeeorstt).

Definitions for sea-otter

noun

  1. a marine otter, Enhydra lutris, of the shores of the northern Pacific, with a very valuable fur: now greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.

Origin of sea-otter

First recorded in 1655-65

Examples for sea-otter

Though with habits of his own he has ways of the weasel and of the sea otter.

No animal, however, on land or sea can dive with the sea otter.

To-day the pelt of a sea otter is worth its weight in platinum or palladium.

The sea otter is found on the sea coast and in the salt water.

This was the beginning of the fur trade in sea otter with Americans and English.

The sea otter and the seal were a lure to the men of many nations.

The skins of the sea otter are much prized by the Chinese, who pay for them from seventy to one hundred roubles a-piece.

There is no way in which the sea otter can be trapped and they are hunted only with rifles.

The sea otter is among the swiftest swimmers of the mammals, but no air-breathing creature can compete in speed with a shark.

A distinct species is found in the North Pacific, and is known as the sea otter.

Word Value for sea-otter
Scrable

3

Words with friends

3

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